Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-06-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Apr 13, 2008, at 8:48 PM, T. V. Raman wrote: two suggestions: 1) accept paths like "./foo.html" as local links. This is now allowed. 2) Augment C-c C-l to react to file: by providing filename completion relative to the working directory. This is hard and therefore not yet implement

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-13 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Apr 13, 2008, at 10:32 PM, T. V. Raman wrote: file:// urls are already designed to be platform independent. So an org file should never carry in it a path like a\\b\\c.html -- we should always use a/b/c.html since that's the syntax used by relative URLs. Yes, but while an Org file is still

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-13 Thread T. V. Raman
file:// urls are already designed to be platform independent. So an org file should never carry in it a path like a\\b\\c.html -- we should always use a/b/c.html since that's the syntax used by relative URLs. > "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carsten> Hi Raman, On

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-13 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Raman, On Apr 13, 2008, at 8:48 PM, T. V. Raman wrote: two suggestions: 1) accept paths like "./foo.html" as local links. I will look into this. The problem is the system dependence of file names, so I am not sure what a good solution would be that would work on Windows as well as on Un

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-13 Thread T. V. Raman
two suggestions: 1) accept paths like "./foo.html" as local links. 2) Augment C-c C-l to react to file: by providing filename completion relative to the working directory. The emacs binding to the w3m browser does this if you type file: in the minibuffer when prompted for a URL. > "Carsten

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-13 Thread Carsten Dominik
H, this is *such* a good idea, that I will implement this retroactively into all versions since ... 2.0 or so? Abracadabra! Done. In fact, it has been working just so for a very long time. file:foo.html -> href="foo.html" file:foo.org-> href="foo.html" The second line assumes that t

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-13 Thread T. V. Raman
I think writing http:foo.html is a bad idea because typing that string in other contexts is sort of meaningless as a URL. Until now, everything one types in org-mode sort of has meaning elsewhere. If you want it to look like a url in this case too then I'd suggest file:foo.html -- rther than http:

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-13 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Apr 13, 2008, at 5:33 PM, T. V. Raman wrote: I've not tried http:foo.html -- but I suggest doing that to author a relative URL is a bad idea. Can you explain why you think that this is a bad idea? Educate me! What is wrong with writing http:foo.html ?? - Carsten I tried ./foo.ht

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-13 Thread T. V. Raman
I've not tried http:foo.html -- but I suggest doing that to author a relative URL is a bad idea. I tried ./foo.html and that didn't work either. One compromise would be to get ./foo.html to link to a relative url, while foo.html continues to link to a local anchor > "Carsten" == Carsten Dom

Re: [Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-12 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:49 AM, T. V. Raman wrote: Hi, org-export turns links of the form [[foo][link to relative url foo]] ends up creating links of the form ... this means that it becomes impossible to write hyperlinks that are relative URLs. Hi Raman, the url goes into the first pair of s

[Orgmode] export to html and relative links:

2008-04-12 Thread T. V. Raman
Hi, org-export turns links of the form [[foo][link to relative url foo]] ends up creating links of the form ... this means that it becomes impossible to write hyperlinks that are relative URLs. -- Best Regards, --raman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/